Dewey Decimal System

Many years ago, a man named Melvil Dewey devised a numbering system for classifying books. This system — named in his honor as the Dewey Decimal System — has been adopted by libraries the world over. It organizes information into 10 broad areas, which are broken into smaller and smaller topics. Different topics are assigned numbers, known as "call numbers." In our library, nonfiction books for the children's section are denoted by the letter J placed before this call number.

A list of some of the information you can find in the different Dewey Decimal areas, appears below.